Dr. Jon Cohen

Author & CEO

Jon R. Cohen, M.D. is the CEO of Talkspace, a leading digital mental health company, and the author of SWAB, which is a behind-the-scenes account of the race to scale the country’s COVID-19 testing effort documenting the efforts of his team, while CEO at BioReference Laboratories.

Dr. Cohen has more than 30 years of healthcare experience as a seasoned strategic leader and healthcare policy expert with a successful track record of growing new healthcare business ventures. He has previously been named as one the nation’s top 50 most powerful physician executives by Modern Healthcare and is recognized for his popular TEDMED talk, “Why Don’t Patients Act Like Consumers?”
Dr. Cohen began his career as a vascular surgeon and served as Chief Medical Officer at Northwell Health, the largest healthcare system in New York State, and as Chief Policy Advisor to former New York Governor David A. Paterson. He completed his residency in general surgery at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and a fellowship in vascular surgery at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Cohen currently serves as CEO of Talkspace, one of the nation’s leading providers of telehealth mental health services. He lives in Great Neck, New York with his wife, Karen Kostroff, M.D., chief of breast surgery for the Northwell Health System.